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Biden the Satan worshipper Fires Thousands more of his staff...

Marines Have Now Booted 169 For Vaccine Refusal - All Religious
Exemptions Denied
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/marines-discharged-vaccine-refusal-total-169-81916582
Seven staffers traveling with the Pentagon's #2 highest overseer
Kathleen Hicks tested positive for Covid-19, all the infected were
vaccinated.
"The Army said it has reprimanded more than 2,700 soldiers and will
begin discharge proceedings in January, while the Air Force has
discharged at least 27 members"



'Patriotic Duty' My Eye

https://brownstone.org/articles/patriotic-duty-my-eye/

Rough Rider Teddy must be rolling in his grave as he looks down upon
these poseurs gathered in the Roosevelt room. For crying out loud,
every one of them is double vaxxed and totally boosted. And they have
issued orders to force the same upon more than 130 million of their
countrymen—allegedly to prevent the latter from becoming walking
vectors of disease and killers of their neighbors.

Yet if the Vaxx is actually a spread stopper, why do they sit there in
their masks? What’s the need to protect Biden from Fauci when the
sainted doctor is armed to the teeth with vaxxed-in antibodies? And
why is Biden festooned with the medical equivalent of Depends when
he’s already got the accident-prevention protection of the Vaxx?

Or does he? That is to say, if it doesn’t work to stop the spread, the
benefit is only private and not public and hence there is no earthly
reason for mandating it against the will of millions of citizens who
fear that the risks outweigh the benefits. And if it does stop the
spread—despite the manifest evidence to the contrary—-why all the face
mask virtue signalling on live TV?

In short, this “photo op” is worth a thousand words. It’s a live
action illustration of what’s been wrong since the beginning in March
2020. Namely, the predicate that one-size-fits all social control
mechanisms—lockdowns, closures, distancing, masking, vaxxing—must be
preemptively and harshly employed by arms of the state in order to
stop the spread of an aerosolized airborne virus which cannot be seen
and cannot be stopped.

Indeed, the latest argument for mandatory vaxxing—-that it prevents
not transmission and infection but just a serious course of the
disease—makes the picture patently absurd. What are these cats afraid
of then?

The real contagion at loose in the world—especially among the western
nations which noisily congratulate themselves as model liberal
democracies to be emulated by the more benighted nations inhabiting
the purported darker corners of the planet—is a virulent outbreak of
statist authoritarianism.

That is, a definitely not Black Plague virus of the type that has
challenged mankind o’er the ages has become a universal excuse for the
wholesale cancellation of civil liberties and property rights like
never before—even in times of world war.

Take the pathetic case of the United Kingdom. It is governed by a
Conservative Party that’s traitorous to the cause of liberty and led
by an unkempt Donald Trump wanna be who has assaulted the essence of
liberal democracy to such a sweeping extent that his most
authoritarian predecessors  (i.e. Winston Churchill, among others)
scarcely dreamed of it and the Donald himself couldn’t hold a candle
to it.

BoJo, in fact, is right now hauling out all the tools of public health
authoritarianism in response to what amounts to a run-of-the-mill
winter flu among the British population.

And that latter proposition is not debatable. Not when you compare the
peak January data, when virtually no one was vaccinated compared to
80% of adult Brits today, with the 7-day rolling averages through last
week. Thus,

    The case rate last week was 1,138 per million or 30% higher than
the 875 per million recorded at the January 2021 peaks, but–

    The death rate last week of 1.64 per million was down by a
god-is-apparently-smiling 91% compared to the 18.21 rate at the
January 2021 peak.

Of course, peek under the covers and what you have is the same old,
same old. Not only is the Omicron variant far more transmissible and
massively less lethal than earlier variants–for the inherent reasons
that sensible virologists and epidemiologists have explained ad
infinitum—but the propaganda contagion of the state’s Virus Patrol
appears to be even more virulent.

That is to say, as the government, the BBC, the Guardian and their
mass media ilk have stirred the fear pot one more time, the UK testing
rate has also skyrocketed and is now well more than double the rate of
last January at the previous winter season peak. Thus:

Alas, the public health machinery has so effectively stirred the fear
quotient among the populace that the positivity rate has fallen
dramatically. Compared to a 10.8% rate in January 2021, the current
rate is just 6.0%.

Obviously, what is happening is that more and more asymptomatic and
completely healthy well people are getting tested in response to the
drumbeat, which testing surge has generated the predictable wave of
new “cases” and new measures of propaganda and control from the Virus
Patrol.

And remember, folks, the UK is allegedly governed by “conservatives”,
which gets us to what’s coming down the pike from Sleepy Joe and the
crypto-socialists who actually move his lips.

As we learned, they are fixing to launch a massive new round of free
stuff—this time in the form of 500 million home testing kits to be
mailed out to Americans just like so many unrequested mail-in ballots,
meaning that we have surely come full circle: Until March 2020 under
the prior regime of private medical practice based on doctor-driven
testing and treatments tailored to one-at-a-time patients, we are now
to have the equivalent of a one-size-fits-all testing regime,
delivered by the government-run post office!

As it happens, however, America has already done nearly 800 million
tests, yet has some of the worst WITH-Covid mortality statistics in
the western world. So we are at a complete loss to comprehend how more
government-mediated “testing” will accomplish anything constructive.

Then again, the chart below tells you everything you need to know.
Despite all the panic in New York City and other hotbeds of Blue State
orthodoxy, the American public is not panicking enough to keep the
Virus Patrol in business. As of the latest 7-day data, the US testing
rate is 3,380 per million (= 1,000X the per 1,000 rate shown in the
chart below).

Now, that’s actually down by 40% from the 5,670 rate per million at
the January 2021 peak, and, even more to the point, it’s just 18% of
the 18,810 rate now being posted among the semi-hysterical population
of the UK.

To be sure, even at the more modest US testing rate rate shown below,
the positivity rate has fallen from 13.3% during last January’s peak
to just 10.8% at present. Therefore, to keep the scam going the US
needs at hell of a lot more testing—especially in the Red states—in
order to get a lot more cases.

As it is, last week’s US case rate of 365 per million was down 52%
from the peak January rate of 757per million, and can’t hold a candle
to the Brits. The latter currently are lugging a case rate of the
aforementioned 1,138 per million or 3.1X the current US rate.

If we were of the tinfoil hat wearing persuasion we’d be inclined to
think that Biden’s minions are trying to goose the Red States into a
testing and cases panic in order to keep the faltering argument for
his misbegotten vaxx mandates alive.

Indeed, why on this day is there another fusillade of fear and
admonition streaming from the presidential bully pulpit when we are
dealing with a variant that has so far produced only one-death and a
1.7% hospitalization rate among the infected (compared to 19% at the
comparable stage of Delta) in largely unvaccinated South Africa (26%),
where it apparently originated?

As to the surge of US cases—again largely asymptomatic or just mildly
ill—where’s the beef that justifies another presidential call to arms?
As dramatized by the chart below, the 7-day case rate in the US as of
December 20 was just 420 per million. That was still well below the
495 per million rate reported on September 3rd and far, far below the
757 per million rate reported at last January’s peak.

As for South Africa, which brought us this latest Covid brouhaha, it
basically says to America’s authoritarians in government and Karens on
the streets “oh, just shut up and sit down!”

Here’s the current South Africa data and it reminds once again that
Biden’s teleprompter scripters have no idea what they are talking
about. Between November 11 and December 19, the case rate in South
Africa exploded from less than 5 per million to 388 per million or by
85X. Meanwhile, the death rate has barely budged from 0.48 per million
to 0.55 per million. That is to say, it was a rounding error before
and remains one now.

At the end of the day, of course, there is no case for mandates on
anything—from lockdowns to masking and vaxxing—because the Covid just
isn’t the Black Plague.

After 22 months of counting every death in America with the remotest
Covid connection—including postmortem testing of the human residue of
motorcycle crashes—the annualized mortality rate for the population
under 50 years of age is about 500 per million—-the same figure as for
traffic accidents and other unintentional injuries. That is to say,
for the 211 million Americans who are not in the higher risk, immune
system compromised older population, the Covid risk is the same as the
risks inherent in everyday modern life that we have long ago learned
to live with.

Alternatively, for the population under 65 years of age, the survival
rate for the estimated 110 million Americans (40%) in that cohort who
have contracted the virus since day one (i.e. February 2020) is
99.87%; and if you take the healthy sub-population without significant
underlying comorbidities, the risk of death is virtually nil.

So here we are with another public hysteria, fueled by another speech
from the White House, promising yet another mobilization of the public
health apparatus of the state, including use of the defense production
act to commandeer the manufacture of hundreds of millions—nay,
billions before its over—of test kits that will only fuel the
hysteria.

That’s pretty scary. And even more so is Biden’s renewed attack on the
60 million unclean Americans—overwhelmingly in the younger, low risk
cohorts—who have exercised their constitutional liberty and have
chosen not to take the jab:

    Biden sought to draw a clear contrast when describing how the
omicron surge will affect the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated,
issuing a dire warning to 60 million unvaccinated Americans.

    “How concerned should you be about omicron, which is now the
dominant variant in this country and it happened so quickly. The
answer is straightforward: If you’re not fully vaccinated, you have
good reason to be concerned……Omicron is serious, potentially deadly
business for unvaccinated people,” Biden said

Sorry, Joe. But it’s none of your business what people chose to do
about a vaccine that does not stop transmission and infection from
this latest mutation; and it is most certainly not the “patriotic
duty” of Americans who think the risks are not worth the benefits to
take the jab on your say so.

In a word, we are in the midst of the greatest and most fraught
science experiment of all time, starting with the attempt to
completely reconstruct all patterns of normal interaction, the closing
of vast institutions on grounds that they are not essential, and now
ending with more than 11 billion shots having been administered
already around the world.

The private benefit of the vaccination for the elderly holds up but
rather than even acknowledge the rapidly fading risk/reward equation
for much of the population—most especially the children—the powers
that be trotted out a teleprompter reader in his dotage to stoke the
public hysteria.

The only real patriotic duty under these circumstances, of course, is
to adopt the words of the other Joe from West Virginia and utter a
loud “I’m a no!” when it comes to Biden’s mandates.